Yes, we started getting the "New Channel" message on our device a few days ago and I was pleasantly surprised to see it will be a genuine station rather than the mystery ghost channels we keep having to tune!

More houseporn is just what the economy needs. Get people back to thinking that they don't need to worry about their shitty job and dickhead boss - just get a huge mortgage, paint that house in Grey Lynn gray and house price inflation (sorry; property appreciation) will take care of the rest.

Why don't they just call it False Consciousness Channel and be done with it?

In that case, I suggest they look at getting Eurovision. Apparently New Zealand is the only country in the developed world that doesn't screen it. It's good fun, has loads of good music (as well as the cheese) and bags of entertainment. They have a month to arrange it.

Also, by their somewhat stretched definition of 'Europe' we could probably join and enter a side. I reckon a version of 'Holidays in Cambodia' by the Wellington Ukelele Orchestra might win.

Except that's a cover of a previously released song, so it wouldn't be eligible. And the WIUO would have to scale down to a six-piece for the performance. And no live instruments are allowed, so they wouldn't come across so well. Eurovision is serious business.

Freeview|HD is available to 86% of NZ homes and can be picked up using a UHF aerial connected to a Freeview|HD receiver;

That 86% of NZ homes relay just means the Main Centres, the rural folk are stuck with satellite and that means no Heartland, no Choice, I don’t think many people get a satellite dish without it being through Sky TV so, lucky Sky I guess.

ETA.With the analogue switch off just around the corner, this should be of great concern to many people .